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Clindamycin Caps 150mg 24 Periodic Price Rises
This product is subject to periodic price rises with a regular, 90 month (7 and a half years), period between each.
Competition for Market Price in Temazepam Tabs 10mg 28
Temazepam Tabs 10mg 28 is subject to periodic price rises which suggests a three or six year cycle
Fiercely competing Suppliers of Anagrelide Caps 0.5mg 100
Some suppliers take a high price strategy, giving rebates after the sale, whereas others try to keep their prices as low as possible and invoice the same price as on their price lists.
A three year pattern of periodic price bounces
A three year pattern of price bounces has asserted itself in this product, possibly caused by prices dropping to levels at which manufacturers decline to order more stock.
Intense Market Competition in the UK
In the UK manufacturers and wholesalers fight hard for their market share by managing their prices so that they are attractive to buyers and maintain profits
Nortriptaline Tabs 10mg 100 Prices are Highly Variable
The prices pharmacists and dispensing doctors pay for medical products in the UK are incredibly variable.
Generic Product Price Bounces – Gabapentin Caps
A pattern of price peaks and troughs can repeat itself, though with decreasing intensity, for some considerable time after launch.
Wavedata’s Online Basket Report
With WaveData’s online Basket Report, you can compare a basket of goods available from your organisation with the prices of a basket of goods available from your competitor. It’s a bit like comparing a basket of goods from Tesco with one from Sainsbury, but for pharmaceuticals.
Ibandronic Acid Tabs 50mg 28 Cyclic Bouncing
The cyclic bouncing that this product displays run on a 7 or 4 year repeating pattern
Generic Product Price Bounces – Gabapentin
After a generic have been launched its price can fall to unprofitable levels. This can cause a price rise which can repeat as prices rise and fall, becoming profitable and unprofitable.
Generic Product Price Bounces – Frovatriptan
Pharmaceutical product price bounces happen after the originator product loses its exclusivity (LOE).
Do high unit value generic products decline more than low value generics?
An analysis of 188 generic products, their launch prices and the final prices today shows that there is a relationship between the high value products and high price declines. Wavedata have previously found that a strong relationship between price decline and the...
Basket Report
Are you trying to get additional pharmacy or dispensing accounts to buy more of your products? With WaveData’s online Basket Report, you can compare a basket of goods available from your organisation with the prices of a basket of goods available from your competitor.
Price Decline in Liquid Formulations
Metformin Oral Solution S/F 500mg/5ml 150ml and Metformin Oral Solution 500mg/5ml 150ml are the two liquid formulations most frequently searched for in our live pricing service Wavedata Live in November. This service allows users to interrogate the current prices...
Do High Unit Value Generic Products Decline More than Low Value Generics?
An analysis of 188 generic products, their launch prices, and the final prices show that there is a relationship between the high value products and high price declines. Wavedata has previously found that a strong relationship between price decline and the original...
WaveData’s Top 10 searched products – where the focus was to November 2021.
According to WaveData, these were the most commonly investigated products in searches of the online pricing data Wavedata Live accessed through www.wavedata.co.uk/login. Both UK and PI prices were viewed for each product, giving some indication of where the focus was...
Northern Irish medical product supply
In the absence of any acceptable UK EU deal on the supply of medical products to Northern Ireland, the number of price list offers for both generics and parallel imports, as measured by Wavedata, are continuing to decline rapidly. In September 2021 wholesalers and...
Price Decline
Wavedata looked at the decline in the market price for generics launched since 2012 and compared this with the number of generic manufacturers shown in the price lists they collect. A total of 186 products were analysed, and any generic manufacturer or licence holder...
What happens when a product loses its patent protection?
Here is a good example of what happens when a product loses its patent protection. The first point is that the UK price, the price pharmacies and dispensing doctors would pay, has remained fairly consistent over the last 10 years. This is apart from a few sudden dips...
Tramadol Caps 50mg 30 Price Trends
Our WaveData services has over 10 years of pricing data for Tramadol Caps 50mg 30. The graph below shows the Average UK Price, Concession Price, and Reimbursement price. Tramadol Caps 50mg 30 has shown two major peaks, the first in Aug 2014 and the second in Nov 2017....
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